Key Research Areas

Transnational Networks

Current Projects:

  • Lecture Series: “Karibik: Konfliktualität und Relation” / “Caribbean: Conflicts and Relationships” organized by Ralph Ludwig & Erik Redling. Website

Conferences:

  • “Beyond Metrical Prosody: New Rhythms in US and German (Post-) Modern Poetry” organized by Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek & Erik Redling (May 17-19, 2018, Berlin). Conference Website
  • “The Dynamics of Power: Inclusion and Exclusion in Women’s Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century” organized by Joanne Paisana, Jaime Costa & Margarida Pereira (November 3-5, 2016, Berlin). Conference Website
  • “Protestantism on Screen: Religion, Politics, and Aesthetics in European and American Movies” organized by Gastón Espinosa, Erik Redling & Jason Stevens (June 25-27, 2015, Halle). Conference Website
  • “Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Negotiations of Cultural Concepts in Transatlantic Intellectual Networks” organized by Erik Redling (April 17-19, 2014, Halle). Conference Website
  • “Intercontinental Cross-Currents: Women’s (Net-) Works across Europe and the Americas (1776-1939)” organized by Julia Nitz, Sandra H. Petrulionis & Theresa Schön (December 5–7, 2013, Lutherstadt Wittenberg). Conference Website

Guest Lectures:

  • Brown, Vincent (Harvard University), “The Coromantee War: Charting the Course of an Atlantic Slave Revolt” (Muhlenberg Lecture, May 30, 2018, Halle). Website

Publications:

  • Redling, Erik, ed. Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Negotiations of Cultural Concepts in Transatlantic Intellectual Networks. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2016. Publisher’s Version
  • Nitz, Julia, et al., eds. Intercontinental Crosscurrents: Women’s Networks across Europe and the Americas. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. Publisher’s Version
  • Redling, Erik, et al., eds. American Studies Today: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives. Heidelberg, Winter, 2014. Publisher’s Version

Networks:

  • Intercontinental Cross–Currents Network. Website